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Gore urges change over status quo in close election

DENVER - Al Gore told Democrats last night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama represents." And the former vice president said he knows something about close elections.

He does because he lost one, in overtime, in 2000, to President George W. Bush.

Gore said Bush's leadership has spelled calamity and Republican...

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